Cockeye



No. 752,189. I PATENTED PEB.16,19 04. H. P. SMITH.

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APPLICATION FILED MAB. 5. 1903.

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HENRY P. SMITH, OF OANAAN, OHIO.

COCKEYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 752,189, dated February 16, 1904.

Application filed. March 5, 1903.

T (LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY P. SMITH, a citi is to produce a generally-improved device of this class which will be exceedingly simple in construction, inexpensive of manufacture, and efiicient in use. The devices of this class now in common use generally consist of two partsviz., the main body portion, comprising two arms terminating at their rear in an eye, and

a cross bar or bolt passing through and uniting the forward ends of the arms and through the rear of the tug-strap, thus securing the cockeye to the tug-strap. As these cockeyes are liable to become broken, it is desirable that provision be made whereby the same may be readily attached to or disengaged from the tug-strap.

With these ends in view the invention consists in the novel construction hereinafter clescribed, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, I

Referring now to the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved cockeyeattached to the rear of the tug-strap. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same disconnected from the tug-strap and showing the position of the parts when it is desired to attach the same to or disengage from the tug-strap.

Similar characters of reference indicate like parts throughout both figures of the drawlngs.

1 designates the main body portion of the cockeye, comprising the arms 2 and 3, terminating at their rear in a loop or eye 4, to be hereinafter more fully described. Securely attached to or formed integral with the forward ends of the arms 2 and 8 are pins 5 and 6, which when the cockeye is closed and attached to the tug-strap form the cross-bar, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The rear portion of the loop or eye 4 Serial No. 146,272. (No model.)

is formed in two parts 7 and 8, the part 7 being formed with a recess 9 and the part 8 being formed with a tailpiece 10, adapted to take into and be contained within the recess 9 when the parts or arms 2 and 3 are moved to their closed position, as shown in Fig. 1. The parts 7 and 8 are pivotally secured to each other by means of a pivot-pin 11 at one side of the loop or eye 4. The arms 2 and 3 are bent to form a neck between the eye and cross-bar portions and complete the eye when the arms are in their closed positions.

Should it be desired to attach a tug-chain or other device for extending the length of the tug-strap to the oockeye, a ring or one of the links of the chain may be passed over one of the arms 2 and 3 and back into the eye 4, and the cockeye may be attached to the tugstrap by closing the arms, so that the pins 5 and 6 will take into the loop of the rear of the tug-strap, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

It will be readily understood that by reason of the construction of the rear of the eye 4 the pull upon the. eye of the cockeye will always hold the parts securely in their proper attached position by preventing the tailpiece from entering within the, eye.

It Will be seen that I have provided a device which may be readily attached to or disen gaged from the tug-strap, and various changes in the form, proportion, andthe minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principles or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the operation and advantages of my invention will be readily understood.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A cockeye having eye and cross-bar portions and comprising two members pivotally connected at one side of the eye portion, said members being formed with a-neck between the eye and cross-bar portions shaped to complete the eye when the members are closed, said members being provided with inwardlyextending ends to constitute the cross-bar portion, and a tailpiece extension upon one of the eye portion adjacent the pivot, and a tailpiece extension upon the other member 5 formed to lie within said recess when said members are closed and to project within the eye when said members are open.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two sub- 20 scribing witnesses.

HENRY P. SMITH.

Witnesses:

MATT YOUNG, OBED G. BILLMAN. 

